Discussion: Bill Nye Reveals How The Universe Sends 'Cosmos Guidance To White Women'

system1 · May 27, 2015, 2:08pm

Discussion for article #236807

sherlock1 · May 27, 2015, 2:23pm

Nye made me a fan, to a degree, when he eviscerated that blowhard fundie Creationist Ken Ham during a debate last year. While I hated the fact that Ham’s profile, and thus fund raising grifting, would undoubtedly be rewarded by the high profile debate (and just acknowledging him gave him undeserved legitimacy for his lunacy), the closing question alone just made my day. It was so telling and went something like this:

Narrator: “Mr. Ham. What would change your mind about evolutionary processes and the creation of the universe?”

Ham: “Nothing.”

Narrator: “Mr. Nye…same question.”

Nye: “Evidence.”

mattinpa · May 27, 2015, 2:38pm

Heh. I love the new-agey types (by no means all young or female in my experience) who think the universe has the time or inclination to send them personal messages to help them “grow” on their “journey.” I was having beers with a local environmentalist group one time and one woman remarked to another that she thought a recent cold was a “message from the universe to eat less dairy.” I wanted to tell her the universe would watch with serene indifference as she was torn apart by a pack of killer whales and really doesn’t care about her diet, or theirs, much one way or the other. I didn’t, that one time. But I wanted to.

sherlock1 · May 27, 2015, 2:41pm

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
________________Carl Sagan

cincypix · May 27, 2015, 2:51pm

“Inside Amy Schumer?” I’d be clawing my way out during the cold open

jaybeeraybee · May 27, 2015, 3:01pm

He’s a doctor in… Science!! Or at least a guy. Either way, absolutely brilliant.

sniffit · May 27, 2015, 3:33pm

Hilarious. Her show is growing on me. She had a skit the other day with women all sitting around doing their henpecking bragging thing to show whose life is just better than the others’…you know, like underhanded and veiled with politeness and forced laughs though, not up front and in your face like guys do their bragging…and they all kept ending their story about how awesome their lives are with something about wanting to just drop it all and open a quaint little bakery in Maine, until the last one says she actually did drop it all and opened a quaint little bakery in Maine (obviously winning the bragging contest), so the rest of them flame up and turn to ashes…gave me the giggles for an hour.

dickweed · May 27, 2015, 4:02pm

I mainly watched this video to hear Bill Nye say fuck and bullshit. 2 things he was probably dying to say during that debate…what will power!

notborneveryminute · May 27, 2015, 4:17pm

“a force sending cosmos guidance”
Caitlin, you can’t even fucking type!

darrtown · May 27, 2015, 4:59pm

Why would God (or the Universe) bother about one small dust mote in the Milky Way?

On another note equally weird (per the History Channel program “Ancient Aliens”), why would space traveling aliens come hundreds or thousands of light years to Earth to mine gold or land in Peru to mine nitrates when they could do this much closer to home? After all they had to have had a source for these things in order to build their space ships to begin with. Seriously, the participants in that program actually think space aliens mining gold on Earth is plausible.

Thanks the Maker there’s Bill Nye.

notborneveryminute · May 27, 2015, 5:29pm

You’re only slightly right. He’s not a doctor nor a scientist. He’s an engineer. He’s also a guy, from what I can tell. But he’s a helluva guy!

538liberal · May 27, 2015, 5:30pm

Bill Nye can be brutally effective. Paul Atreides said, ‘Fear is the mind killer’. I say that belief is the spirit-killer. When you believe, you cut yourself off from an infinity of possibilities. Limiting your spirit’s ability to soar is akin to clipping the wings of an eagle. It’s tragic. On that note, happy visages for your liberal, open-minded enjoyment:

notborneveryminute · May 27, 2015, 5:55pm

Where are their blue eyes?

twowolves · May 27, 2015, 8:13pm

“under the vast indifference of heaven.” - W. Zevon

bradbennett · May 28, 2015, 6:45pm

Best.Response.Ever!

And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between (most) liberals and any modern conservative.

(have to make an exception for those “liberal” anti-vaccination folks)

bradbennett · May 28, 2015, 6:48pm

You, sir, are a model of self-restraint.

I wish I could say the same for myself - I’d probably have a lot more friends!

bradbennett · May 28, 2015, 6:54pm

Love her show!

If you haven’t seen the music videos that were in the first two episodes this season you should check it out at the CC website. I literally LOL every time I think of them. Funniest non-political comedy show I’ve seen in years.